What’s next for elections? The Elections Research Center is partnering with the State Democracy Research Initiative to host the Election Matters 2025 event series to bring together various experts to dissect developments in all things elections-related.
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The Elections Research Center and the State Democracy Research Initiative invite you to join us for an Election Matters 2025 Panel, “Money, Politics, and the First Amendment” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. This event will take place on Friday, October 3, from 3:00-4:15pm Central Time. You can attend this panel in-person in the University of Wisconsin Law School, Room 2260, or virtually over Zoom. This panel is approved for 1.5 Wisconsin CLE credits.
The panel will discuss the impacts of increasingly expensive elections and the tension between campaign finance regulation and free speech. There will be an in person reception to follow. Our panelists will include Benjamin Ginsberg (Hoover Institution), Saurav Ghosh (Campaign Legal Center), Raymond La Raja (UMass Amherst, Political Science), Abby Wood (USC Gould School of Law) and will be moderated by ERC Director Barry Burden (UW-Madison, Political Science).
The Elections Research Center and the State Democracy Research Initiative invite you to join us for an Election Matters 2025 Panel, “Year in Review: Democracy Litigation in SCOTUS and the States,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. This event will take place on Thursday, June 10, from 3:00-4:15pm Central Time. You can attend this panel in-person in the Madison Public Library Community Room at 201 West Mifflin Street Madison, WI 53703, or virtually over Zoom. This panel is approved for 1.5 Wisconsin CLE credits.
This event will review major cases from the past year, highlighting significant democracy-related decisions
at both the state and federal levels. Our panelists will include Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley School of Law), Bo Dul (Office of the Arizona Governor), Tine Leigh Grove (UT Austin School of Law), and Kasia Szymborski Wolfkot (Brennan Center, State Court Report).
The Elections Research Center and the State Democracy Research Initiative invite you to join us for an Election Matters 2025 Panel, “Understanding State Supreme Court Elections: Wisconsin and Beyond,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. This event will take place on Friday, March 7, from 3:00-4:15pm Central Time, with a reception to follow. You can attend this panel in-person in room 7200 at the UW Law School, or virtually over Zoom. This panel is approved for 1.5 Wisconsin CLE credits.
This event will explore the impact, funding, and political context of state supreme court races and how these factors shape the judicial landscape. Our panelists will include Professor Barry Burden (UW-Madison Political Science), Professor Michael Kang (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law), and Professor Quinn Yeargain (MSU College of Law), and the panel will be moderated by Professor Miriam Seifter (UW Law School).
We would like to thank Stafford Rosenbaum LLP for sponsoring this event series
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